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Language, Gesture, and Space (Hardcover)
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Language, Gesture, and Space (Hardcover)
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This book brings together papers which address a range of issues
regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other
gestural systems, and how they exploit the space in which they are
conveyed. The chapters focus on five pertinent areas reflecting
different, but related research topics:
* space in language and gesture,
* point of view and referential shift,
* morphosyntax of verbs in ASL,
* gestural systems and sign language, and
* language acquisition and gesture.
Sign languages and gestural systems are produced in physical
space; they manipulate spatial contrasts for linguistic and
communicative purposes. In addition to exploring the different
functions of space, researchers discuss similarities and
differences between visual-gestural systems -- established sign
languages, pidgin sign language (International Sign), "homesign"
systems developed by deaf children with no sign language input,
novel gesture systems invented by hearing nonsigners, and the
gesticulation that accompanies speech. The development of gesture
and sign language in children is also examined in both hearing and
deaf children, charting the emergence of gesture ("manual
babbling"), its use as a prelinguistic communicative device, and
its transformation into language-like systems in homesigners.
Finally, theoretical linguistic accounts of the structure of sign
languages are provided in chapters dealing with the analysis of
referential shift, the structure of narrative, the analysis of
tense and the structure of the verb phrase in American Sign
Language. Taken together, the chapters in this volume present a
comprehensive picture of sign language and gesture research from a
group of international scholars who investigate a range of
communicative systems from formal sign languages to the
gesticulation that accompanies speech.
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